+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 22 | | | | 1870 - At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the | | crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the | | sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the | | wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the | | UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes. (Sources: Gordon I. R. | | Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in | | Perspective, p. 46; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, | | p. 57; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 11). | | | | 1950 - At 5:45 a.m. two industrialists in Spain saw a bright blue, | | cloud-like object while driving in Villarta de San Juan, Ciudad Real | | Province. It emitted a very bright light that appeared to collide | | with the object. The UFO was seen again 20 times during their drive. | | (Source: Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, citing Stendek, June 1970, p. 17) | | | | 1950 - At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a | | tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the | | north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed. (Source: Loren E. | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 73). | | | | 1953 - At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga | | Canyon, California two young women in their early twenties, Shaw and | | Whitley, remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period | | of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction | | scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black | | tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed | | windows (that is, they somehow passed through the glass panes in the | | windows). They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings | | were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height | | but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender | | builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were | | paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The | | UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible | | language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly | | left them with some information about future events. (Sources: Ann | | Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1976, p. 8; Ann Druffel & Scott | | Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO | | Abductions, The Measure of a Mystery, case 193a). | | | | 1966 - On this night near the airfield in Key West, Florida in 1966 several | | disc-shaped UFOs with flashing lights around the rim were sighted | | from an outdoor theater. The UFOs hovered, then shot away. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 318). | | | | 1967 - A 14-year-old teenager named from Wapello, Iowa reported | | seeing a domed, disc-shaped flying object with legs near his home. | | The UFO had a central row of portholes and multicolored lights. The | | UFO hovered for a short while, then flew away at high speed. This is | | a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Source: Ann Druffel, MUFON | | UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume | | II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 333; Don Berliner, Australasian | | Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54). | | | | 1969 - Two unidentified teenage girls were returning home in the | | Colegio Batista district of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil at | | around 8 p.m. when they saw a luminous object with a blue light | | hovering in the west. It had a ring of white lights around it and | | appeared to be spinning. At home later one of the girls went to the | | window and saw a little man near a gate ten meters away. He was | | standing erect and facing her window. He wore a kind of diving suit | | with a soft green luminosity, and a helmet through which she could | | see a pair of glowing reflective eyes, like those of a cat. She told | | her earlier companion and a third girl. The second girl also saw the | | entity, who by then was standing facing sideways. The third girl ran | | to the aid of the first witness who was so frightened by the figure's | | appearance she went into a state of shock. That same evening the | | boyfriend of one of these girls was walking on the other side of the | | city when the streetlights went out and he saw the faintly | | illuminated silhouettes of two small figures standing on a precipice | | above the street only a few meters away from him. Frightened, he | | hurried on, but walking through the area later the streetlights were | | on again and the figures were gone. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-23, citing | | the CICOANI group). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 11 September 2005). | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: abduction, blu | | e UFO, domed discs, discs with lights around the rim, hovering follow | | ed by high-speed exit, spinning UFO, short humanoids, thin humanoids. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+